Video & Audio Production Skills

Writes the character-performance layer of a video prompt as behavior under pressure, not displayed emotion — objective, obstacle, tactics, beats, subtext, listening, body/status/proxemics, and mandatory eye life. Produces a reusable 150–220-word acting master profile per character plus a per-scene rewrite of it, and a locked voice prompt. Use whenever a prompt needs acting, performance, or emotion direction; whenever characters read wooden, dead-eyed, or 'AI'; whenever a character must stay themselves across many shots; or when the user asks for character behavior, mannerisms, tics, a gait, or how someone reacts. Pairs with higgsfield-facs (muscle-level AU codes) and higgsfield-seedance (the prompt the paragraph goes into).

Use when the user asks about Higgsfield's one-click Apps, wants to know which app to use for a specific output, or needs guidance on the Apps workflow.

Use when the user asks about Higgsfield Assist (the built-in GPT-5 copilot), how to use the platform's native AI assistant, credit optimization strategies, plan selection, how to get more from fewer credits, or platform efficiency tips.

Use when the user asks about audio in Higgsfield videos, needs to add dialogue or lip-sync, wants sound effects or ambient sound in generated video, asks about music or BGM in output, or is using any audio-capable model (Kling 3.0, Seedance 1.5 Pro, Seedance 2.0, Veo 3/3.1, Grok Imagine Video). Also use when the user's prompt would benefit from audio direction but they haven't mentioned it.

Use when the user asks about camera movements, shot types, or how to describe camera behavior in a Higgsfield prompt. Contains all named camera controls with descriptions, best use cases, and example prompt phrases.

Use when the user mentions Higgsfield Canvas, a node-based or node graph workspace, an infinite board/canvas, chaining generations into a pipeline, or wants to wire prompts → images → videos across models on one surface. Covers what Canvas is, the node categories, the seven models that run inside Canvas, the named canvas patterns (Simple Seedance, Extend Video, Image Edit, StoryBoard With Elements, Long Video fan-out), the build-free / generate-paid cost model, reusable templates, assets-as-nodes, and Shared Canvas live collaboration. Also trigger on 'Higgsfield ComfyUI alternative', 'node workflow', or 'connect nodes to build a scene/campaign'.

Pre-production story-and-character development for Higgsfield projects — the upstream layer that decides WHAT to prompt before any model runs. Use when the user wants to build a character, design a world, develop a story or premise, create a character sheet / character bible / story bible, lock a visual style or 'visual DNA', plan a multi-shot narrative with consistent characters, or says things like 'help me design a character', 'build the world', 'I need a backstory', 'make this character consistent across shots', 'develop my film/series concept', or 'I keep getting generic AI characters'. Routes the locked outputs into higgsfield-prompt + the right model. Adapted from Higgsfield's official character-design framework by @vavavinca.

Guides users through professional filmmaking workflows in Higgsfield Cinema Studio, including creating multi-shot sequences, configuring optical stacks, applying color grading, managing Soul Cast AI actors, and structuring per-scene prompts with Director Panel camera movements. Use when the user mentions Cinema Studio, Cinema Studio 2.5, Cinema Studio 3.0, Soul Cast, color grading, multi-shot video, shot sequences, storyboard workflow, Hero Frame, optical stack, keyframe interpolation, Elements system (@Characters/@Locations/@Props), Speed Ramp, Director Panel, Higgsfield Popcorn, Single Shot / Multi-Shot Auto / Multi-Shot Manual modes, Reference Anchor, Smart shot control, or any professional filmmaking workflow inside Higgsfield.

Use when the user wants to run a full ad-campaign pipeline on top of Higgsfield Marketing Studio — 'create a campaign', 'build a content plan', 'run the content pipeline', 'generate 100 UGC videos', 'plan and schedule a launch', 'make a batch of ads from my product', or 'how much did this save vs traditional production'. Covers the 5-stage orchestration (Research → Plan → Generate → Publish → Report), the UGC-first 5-format campaign mix (UGC Entertainment, Street Interview, Unboxing, Product Review, ASMR), the even-split allocation math, button-driven onboarding, the per-batch generation gate, and the publish + cost-report tail (satellite). Defers all Marketing Studio API ground-truth (presets, params, hooks, avatars) to higgsfield-marketing-studio.

Controls facial expressions in Seedance 2.0 with FACS (Facial Action Coding System) Action Unit codes — muscle-level direction (AU12 = lip-corner puller, AU6 = cheek raiser) instead of emotion labels. Use whenever the user wants precise facial acting, a forced/uncanny/mixed expression, micro-performance in a close-up, monologue or dialogue facial beats, a 'which AU code for anger/fear/disgust' answer, or to generate a FACS reference sheet for a character. Pairs with higgsfield-soul Micro-Expressions (named expressions), higgsfield-audio (dialogue + lip-sync), and higgsfield-gpt-image-2 (the reference-sheet image).

Use when the user mentions GPT Image 2.0, gpt-image-2, GPT-Image-2 prompts, or wants to generate an image with GPT Image 2.0. Covers the three-format prompt taxonomy (Format A structured JSON for UI mockups and layout-dense images; Format B dense cinematic prose for single-subject scenes; Format C auto-derive meta-prompt for theme-only concepts), per-format craft patterns, output conventions, the 6-item pre-delivery checklist, and cross-surface workflow context (companion static-ads-workflow.md for ad recreation; higgsfield-marketing-studio cross-surface-workflow.md §3 for msimage / DTC Ads Higgsfield-native alternative).

Use when the user wants to generate a cinematic still image on Higgsfield, asks about shot framing, camera angle, or composition for image prompts, needs a specific shot type (close-up, wide shot, cowboy shot, etc.), or is working with [img] reference-based image generation. Covers distance & size shots, camera angles, and camera movement keywords optimized for AI image models (Soul 2.0, Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image, Flux, etc.).

Use when the user mentions Marketing Studio, DTC Ads, ad video, UGC video, the marketingstudiovideo MCP model, or wants to generate one of the 9 Marketing Studio ad presets (UGC, Tutorial, Unboxing, Hyper Motion, Product Review, TV Spot, Wild Card, UGC Virtual Try On, Pro Virtual Try On). Also triggers on hook+setting picklist questions, preset-avatar / custom-avatar / text-generated-avatar handling, 4–15s ad video questions, or any reference to Higgsfield's ad-video product surface. Cross-surface workflow handoffs (GPT Image 2.0 / Soul Cinema / Nano Banana Pro / msimage image gen → Marketing Studio video) covered in the companion cross-surface-workflow.md.

Use when the user asks about Mixed Media, wants to apply artistic preset styles to an image (Noir, Sketch, Paper, Canvas, Particles, Neon, etc.), combine multiple artistic treatments, or create stylized non-photorealistic outputs.

Use when the user asks which model to use, wants to compare models, or needs guidance on selecting between Kling, Sora 2, Wan, Seedance, Veo 3, Minimax Hailuo, Soul, Nano Banana, or other Higgsfield engines.

Use when the user asks about Moodboard, building a moodboard from reference images, curated moodboard presets, Soul Hex color transfer, applying a visual style direction to generations, or named moodboard styles like Y2K studio, Warm ambient, Theatrical light, Swag era, Flash editorial, Street photography, Asian nostalgia, Retro BW, Surreal solarization, etc.

Use when the user wants to apply a named Higgsfield motion preset, asks about VFX presets, transformation effects, elemental effects, or transition presets. Contains the full named preset library with descriptions and prompt usage.

End-to-end motion-design / animated-ad creation flow on Higgsfield via the MCP connector. Use when the user wants to create motion design, animate a logo, make a video from an image, build an animated ad or brand promo, turn a product into motion, or says 'make a motion', 'motion design', 'animate this', 'make a video from my logo', 'animated brand', 'motion graphics', 'brand motion', 'kinetic graphics', 'promo video', or 'ad video'. Drives a storyboard-first pipeline: brief → storyboard sheet (GPT Image 2) → video (Seedance 2.0) — an AI-generated pixel video clip. Distinct from higgsfield-motion (the named camera/motion preset library) and from higgsfield-vibe-motion (deterministic Remotion code with crisp text); use vibe-motion instead when the text/logo must stay perfectly crisp, editable, and deployable as code.

Use when the user wants to create a complete multi-shot video, asks how to chain Higgsfield tools together, wants to build a short film or branded content series, asks "what's the full workflow", needs to connect Popcorn → image → video → Recast → audio → assembly, or wants to understand how the platform works as a production system rather than isolated tools.

Use when building, writing, refining, or structuring a Higgsfield AI prompt. Covers the MCSLA formula, prompt structure, narrative vs. timestamped formats, and how to write for both text-to-video and image-to-video workflows.

Use this skill AUTOMATICALLY before writing any Higgsfield prompt. Query the memory databases for relevant past failures and pre-apply known fixes before the user even hits generate. Triggers include: any request to write a Higgsfield prompt, any use of the higgsfield-prompt skill, any mention of generating a video or image on Higgsfield, any MCSLA prompt construction. This skill should run SILENTLY in the background — don't announce it, just apply what's known. If the databases are empty, skip silently and proceed with normal prompt generation.

Use when the user wants a genre-specific scene template, starting point for a type of video (action, horror, romance, product ad, documentary, sci-fi, dance, etc.), or asks for prompt examples for a specific style of content.

Rewrites scene descriptions using professional cinematography language, structures prompts with a six-slot formula (camera + subject + action + setting + style + lighting), and diagnoses content filter rejections via a preflight linter. Use whenever the user asks for a Seedance 2.0 / Seedance Pro prompt, describes a scene for Seedance generation, mentions Seedance, reports a Seedance generation failure or flagged prompt, or is burning credits on Seedance regenerations.

Seedance 2.5 prompt director — the omni-reference dialect. Routes the four generation modes (t2v / omnireference / videoedit / videoextension), writes explicit @Image/@Video/@Audio reference roles with exclusions, stages 30-second videos into end-state beats, and covers video editing, forward/backward extension, first-last-frame and multi-keyframe control, storyboard grids, blockout rendering, and seamless transitions. Use whenever the user asks for a Seedance 2.5 prompt, mentions Seedance 2.5 / Dreamina / Jimeng, wants a clip longer than 15s on Seedance, wants to EDIT or EXTEND an existing video rather than generate a new one, or supplies more than a handful of image/video/audio references. For Seedance 2.0 (4K, start/end frames, genre hint) use higgsfield-seedance instead.